Year
2019
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Management, Operations and Marketing
Abstract
Traditional views of organisations often presume that organisations ought to be stable entities, and lack of stability shows the failure of organisational management. Research studies that are influenced by such views feel that they should provide a justification for any changes that they identify in an organising context. At the same time, there is a burgeoning body of research that, drawing on process philosophers, such as Whitehead, Mead, Bergson and Rescher, investigates the affordance of process views for organisation studies. For this stream of research, the presumption is that all things are in a state of flux and becoming, and change is the default explanation for an organisation’s becoming. However, despite their significant contributions to the field, process studies of organisation are nascent, providing much room for further investigation.
Recommended Citation
Zaher, Nabi, A process study of sensemaking and sensegiving During organisational change, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong, 2019. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/648
FoR codes (2008)
1503 BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
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